Liberal citizen money
The Liberal Bürgergeld ( LBG ) is the FDP concept of a needs-based negative income tax for social security . It is also a socio-political financial transfer concept according to which every citizen receives a legally stipulated financial allowance when in need without having to provide anything in return ( transfer service ). It's a form of citizen money .
General concept
The liberal citizens' money of the FDP follows the tradition of negative income tax by Milton Friedman , which was further developed in Germany by Joachim Mitschke.
The German economist Joachim Mitschke presented in his book Tax and Transfer Ordinance from One Cast (1985) the citizens' money as a summary of all direct social transfers . Citizens' benefits should therefore only be paid out to those in need after appropriate examination and offset against higher incomes. The tax office should carry out this check and also the payments of the citizens' money. The ancillary wage costs are reduced overall and the state bureaucracy is streamlined.
The Liberal Citizens' Allowance is to be paid out in the case of need and willingness to work or inability to work in the sense of a negative income tax . According to the FDP, it should trigger an increased income incentive in that additional income is credited less than in today's social security systems.
Taking up gainful employment is to be promoted more strongly by adding higher allowances to one's own income from work. For a single person, an allowance of 100 euros would be granted and 40% of the gross income would not be offset against the citizen benefit. If a reasonable job is rejected, the citizen's benefit will be reduced.
The amount of the Liberal Citizens' Benefit should be an average of 662 euros / month for a single person without children and include basic security as well as accommodation and heating costs. Furthermore, tax and child benefit claims as well as support services for health and long-term care insurance are to be included.
Based on the previous ALG-II standard rate of 359 euros, around 303 euros of the citizens' allowance remained for accommodation costs. The citizens' money of the FDP also includes those in SGB II u. a. in § 21 , § 23 and § 24a SGB II additionally granted one-off benefits and additional needs such as B. the initial equipment for pregnancy, childbirth and housing, the costs for multi-day class trips, or additional services for the school.
history
The FDP spoke to their party congress in 1994 for a civil money. This model of negative social security income tax should apply to all government-funded social benefits such as B. replace social assistance, child benefit, BAFöG, unemployment benefits.
The Liberal Citizens' Benefit was decided again at the Federal Party Congress in 2005 and has since been part of every election program for the Bundestag election, including the 2017 Bundestag election . It was introduced by the FDP into coalition agreements with the CDU in 1982 and 2009, but was discarded due to financing problems.
The Young Liberals and the New Liberals are committed to citizens' money.
See also
literature
- Erich Fromm : The Psychological Aspects of the Guaranteed Income. In: Robert Theobald (Ed.): The Guaranteed Income. Next Step in Economic Evolution? New York 1966, pp. 175-184
- Gerhard Wegner , Matthias Zeeb, Harry W. Jablonowski: The unconditional basic income: not necessarily a good idea: Contributions to the discussion on a controversial sociopolitical concept , EPD documentation, Frankfurt: Evang. Pressedienst, 2007, 26 p., OCLC 255695054 ( excerpt: article by Matthias Zeeb , PDF)
Web links
- Basics of the concept of negative income tax - Scientific Services, German Bundestag (PDF, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Michael Borchard (ed.), Dieter Althaus, Michael Opielka, Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn, Alexander Spermann, Joachim Fetzer, Michael Schramm, Matthias Schäfer: Das Solidarischen Bürgergeld - Analyzes of a Reform Idea . Lucius & Lucius Verlagsges. mbH Stuttgart, Stuttgart February 27, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8282-0393-8 , pp. 41–54 (accessed on December 6, 2016).
- ↑ a b Luke Haywood: Unconditional Basic Income: An Economic Perspective. In: DIW Berlin. German Institute for Economic Research - August 21, 2014, accessed on December 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Netzeitung : What the FDP understands by citizenship money ( Memento of July 4th, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). October 6, 2009
- ↑ FDP - 56th party conference ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 104 KB)
- ↑ Joachim Mitschke: Tax and transfer order from a single source: Draft of a redesign of direct taxes and social transfers in the Federal Republic of Germany , 1st edition. Edition, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1985, ISBN 978-3789010972 .
- ↑ FDP - 56th party conference ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 104 KB)
